[Fwd: Re: [Fathom] PyTAPS update coming soon]

[Tim Tautges]

For those interested, we've developed and released a python interface to the ITAPS interfaces.  Thanks to Jim for the 
effort involved.  This so far has been tested only on MOAB's iMesh implementation, but in theory should work with 
others' too.

Some caveats:
- I haven't seen pointers to any other publicly-available iGeom or iRel implementations (though RPI is working on some, 
I think).

- At this point, a given iRel implementation is only likely to work with iMesh and iGeom implementations from the same 
institution, since relation of mesh to geometry depends inherently on how those relations are stored in the underlying 
mesh and geometry data.

Comments/questions should be sent to the Fathom email list, at fathom at lists.mcs.anl.gov.

- tim

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fathom] PyTAPS update coming soon
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:45:31 -0500
From: James Porter <jvporter at wisc.edu>
To: fathom at lists.mcs.anl.gov
References: <24433_1271961817_ZZg0X122mKQ5E.00_1271961811.2046.9.camel at widdershins>

Ok, I've (finally) released PyTAPS 1.0rc1. Pretty much everything works,
I think. There are some breaking changes though. These won't affect most
people, but if anyone has issues, let me know and I'll help you fix
them.

Since my last email, I fixed up the tests so they should work even if
you only install iMesh. I also added a tutorial! If people could take a
quick look over it, that'd be much appreciated. I got pretty sick of all
the documentation-writing, so there may be gaps here and there. Anyway,
check it out: <http://packages.python.org/PyTAPS/tutorial>.

- Jim


On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:43 -0500, James Porter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm going to be updating PyTAPS again soon, but before I actually upload
> the new version, I wanted to poll everyone to see if there are any
> missing/broken things that people want addressed. This includes
> documentation. If you want a PyTAPS tutorial, now's the time to ask!
> 
> Here are some current known issues. If any of these are important to
> you, let me know and I will prioritize them. Otherwise, they will
> probably languish away in the tree until I get bored.
> 
> * "python setup.py test" doesn't work when only some of ITAPS is 
>   installed
> * Performance tests are pretty meager; should match mbperf
> * No testing whatsoever for parallel versions of ITAPS (I've never even
>   tried to do this)
> * iRel bindings are still partially untested and totally undocumented 
>   (though this is because iRel itself is due to change)
> * No documentation for C API (useful if you want to write some C code
>   that works with iMesh and then call it from Python)
> * No tutorial
> 
> - Jim
> 
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